We're updating this guideline with new legislation
Here's what's changed:
When deciding if an NDIS support will be funded in your plan, we need to be satisfied that the support is:
- for the impairment you meet the disability or early intervention requirements for, or both
- an NDIS support for you.
Please download the guideline for the latest information, while we update the website over the coming weeks.
Principles we follow to create your plan
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was set up under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (NDIS Act) as a world first approach to disability support. It puts people with disability at the centre of decision-making, through the application of the principles set out below.
As an insurance-based scheme, we take a lifetime approach to a participant’s support needs. We provide funding for NDIS supports that relate to your disability, when your impairments meet the access requirements for disability, early intervention or both. Individual funding means we help participants to purchase NDIS supports from a competitive and consumer-driven marketplace.
Note:
- As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes.
- Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our ‘old framework’ for planning, which includes the legislative changes that become operational when the law commences, and rules are made. All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.
- When we say disability support needs, we mean supports you need for the impairments that meet the disability or early intervention requirements, or both.